On Jul 8, 6:48*pm, arkland wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:09:46 -0700, RicodJour wrote:
Split the wood while it's green. *It's a lot easier and the wood will
dry out much faster. *Much.

I don't know about you, but, I'm a 40 year old man with a gut. I swung an
ax into those wet oak logs. The ax stuck. Took me fifteen minutes to get
it out.

Then, I bought a cone-shaped wedge and a triangle wedge. The points
barely make a dent in the log cross section, even with a 20 pound sledge
driving it home.

After, maybe a dozen or more swings, the wedge is firmly buried in the
center of the 20-inch long foot and a half (or more for the bottom logs)
diameter.

Then I drive the second wedge in to get the first wedge out. After
fifteen or twenty minutes, I've split a single log in half.

Splitting the half into quarters takes half the time of the original
split, but, the point is that these logs aren't going to get split any
time soon.

Plus, it would seem to me that a log would split easier when it's DRY!

Are you sure oak splits easier when wet?

Anyway, how does two months sound (all of July and all of August in the
sun) for how long a log should dry before burning?

Go rent a power splitter...

Won't do much to solve your gut problem, but it will let you split the
wood...

Splitting wood with an axe requires one to be in good shape and
strong...

Swing hard, split good...

~~ Evan